Dulles, Allan Welsh, born on 07-04-1893 in Watertown, New York,
one of five children of Presbyterian minister Allen Macy Dulles, and his wife, Edith (born Foster) Dulles. He was five years younger than his brother, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower‘s
secretary of state and chairman and senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, and two years older than his sister, diplomat, Eleanor Lansing Dulles. His maternal grandfather, John W. Foster, was secretary of state under Benjamin Harrison, while his uncle by marriage, Robert Lansing was secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson. Dulles was uncle to Catholic convert Avery Dulles, a Jesuit priest and cardinal of the Catholic Church, who taught theology at Fordham University from 1988 to 2008.


Allan was the first civilian and the longest serving Director of Central Intelligence and a member of the Warren Commission. Allen Dulles graduated from Princeton University, and in 1916 entered the diplomatic service. After Allen Dulles graduated from college he become a diplomat and during his posts in different European countries started to gather intelligence information during the First World War, he was actually working as an intelligence officer. As legal adviser to the delegation at the League of Nations on arms limitation where had the opportunity to meet with Adolf Hitler (did you know), Benito Mussolini, Maksim Litvinov












Death and burial ground of Dulles, Allan Welsh.




Allan Dulles died at the age of 75 of pneumonia, on 29-01-1969 in Washington DC and is buried with his wife Clover, born Todd, who died age 80, on 15-04-1974, on the Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. On this cemetery is also buried the assassin of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865).
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